When we built the new FSX site (Return to Misty Moorings) we included a 2004 forum. We will be doing some remodeling on the Misty Moorings, Inc site. Here is your chance to add some input into the coming remodeling project. Come say hello on the new Misty Moorings 2004 ... The top of the page is for FSX, half way down you 'll find the FS2004 Forum. Please drop by and join us there if you have comments for Misty Moorings, Inc for 2004.

Our operations center is at Totem Bight. Here we have a lodge
where you can stay. There is a well stocked Library
in this facility so you can learn more about Alaska in general
and Ketchikan in particular. Many of these will be links to
reference sources for the area. Our Charter
Office is also on these grounds and this is where you
will go to find the flight-seeing charters,
and the TripTix
(special VFR directions to addon scenery locations). We
also have a Hangar
where we can repaint aircraft and full AI traffic at both
the floatplane base out front and the airfield up behind the
facility. We even have included an
Environmental Office where we make sure the environments
of the addons are exciting with FSE and a Tool
Shed to house the various tools we use at Misty Moorings,
Inc. including our FAQ
database that helps with tips, tricks and installation
instructions. We are located right beside the Totem Bight
State Park a 5 minute flight from PAKT on the Tongass Narrows.
All aircraft are welcome at our facility, a convenient starting
location to fly to anywhere in Misty Fjords. You start points
will be MMI1 for our Seaplane Base and MMI2 for our airfield.

Welcome to Misty
Moorings, Inc.

(... and maybe this is Welcome BACK?) Many enthusiasts moved on to FSX and of course, Misty was left behind in history. But to our surprise, the hit count on the page is growing as some disallusioned people are now returning to FS2004 (FS9) and finding there way back "home" to Misty. For that reason, we are updating the site. So you will some some construction efforts going on. To see "what's new" go to the NEWS page and you can see the modifications we are working on for you. With the new GNIS Alaska/Hawaii database out for EZ-Landmark, we found we must now do over the EZ-Landmark database for Misty ... as there were many duplicates. So as we "check out" the charters we are revamping that database. Check with the NEWS page for the latest update. As we re-fly the charters, we are fixing minor erros we found in them and you can see those updates on the NEWS page also. "Misty's Place" will re-open soon. If you are new to Misty Moorings, Welcome. If you are coming back, Welcome Home!.

This site is dedicated to the simmer who wants to spend a
little more time enjoying the beauty of Misty Fjords National
Monument near Ketchikan, Alaska. Once you have purchased the
Misty Fjords scenery package, these addons will add additional
pleasure to your experience by offering you special scenery
addons, charter flights, and other support files like a special
database for EZ-Landmark and flight plans for FSNavigator.
Previews for the Misty Fjords scenery package can be viewed
[here]

Note to VA's: We welcome you to this corner of the world.
We are NOT a virtual airline. We have set up flight-seeing
charters and have created TripTix (VFR directions) for most
addon scenery locations, FSNavigator files, EZ-Landmark
files, etc. ... all for YOUR company's enjoyment. So please
download the files, use the airports and enjoy the scenery.
You'll find the flight-seeing charters and TripTix great
for MP situations. (Drop us a line if you fly into PANT
or PAKT and we'll put you on our links page).

Also, we are NOT commercially linked to the Misty Fjords
Scenery package. We were privileged to be a part of the
beta team, and frankly that is why we got excited enough
to put together this site for you. The files and charters
here will help you make the most of your purchase. We want
you to move from "flying a scenery" to "using a scenery"
... that's what will make it as real as it gets. Misty Fjords
is not something you "fly over" it is something you "fly
into" ... a totally immersion in virtual flight.

For those who enjoy making sceneries, AI traffic files,
FSE files ... your contributions are welcome here. We have
some experts that will "check it out" then we'll
post it. For some folks, once in a while they need a little
help trying to put something together, again, contact us
here, I bet we've run into your design problem before, we'd
be happy to help you.

Startup Note: Get the basic scenery and AI Traffic addon
files [here].
Once you have these, then look at the Charters
and TripTix to decide which one you may want to fly.
If you have EZ-Landmark, download that database from [here].

If you are lucky enough to visit Alaska along the coastline,
if you look up, you will see a very busy sky. Not just the
occasional jet trail at 35,000 feet, but much lower ... float
planes, helicopters, amphibians, ski planes ... all buzzing
around busily hurrying from here to there.Once
you get off a main road, Alaska is almost not accessible,
that is UNLESS you have a plane versatile enough to land in
the varying terrain of the interior (ice, dirt, water and
the rare paved runway). So the small and versatile bush planes
and helicopters become the workhorses for linking the remote
areas of Alaska to the rest of the world.

If you want to experience the low flying VFR routing of these
amazing aircraft and experience the courage of pilots who
fly them, you will enjoy what Misty Moorings, Inc. can offer.
But we want to add something more than just a route for you
to follow. When you look out the window of your virtual bush
plane ... what is it you are seeing? If you fly as a tourist
in Alaska, your pilot is also a tour guide pointing out the
sites and telling stories about the history of the area over
which you are flying. We want you to also experience Alaska
from a tourist's point of view. So you can not only fly through
this beautiful scenery, but so you can learn about it to better
understand what you are seeing. The charters and TripTix you'll
find here are designed for "the tourist lurking in all of
us."

The addon scenery files give you places to go within the
Misty Fjords Scenery package. We have added fish canneries,
fishing fleets, lumber, ranger stations, lodges, hideaways,
saw mills and many other interesting things to seek and see.
You will find float plane bases with AI floatplane traffic
... and many more wonderful additions yet to come.

The charters help you learn the territory, they expand your
knowledge of the visual waypoints you are encountering so
you will know where to make your turns, ascents and descents.
Also, it is easy to
set a GPS and fly to a waypoint for a lake or a cabin, but
what do you do when the weather is not ideal? (You will see,
when you download the weather from the internet to make your
flight more realistic, that 8 out of 10 times, you are at
minimal VFR conditions). But you have people vacationing out
in the forest in the cabins that need to be picked up "on
Monday" and other visitors who will take their place "on Monday."
If you wait for the blue skies, you will have some starving
people out in the wilderness and a long line of people in
your waiting room drinking your free coffee! Ceilings of 2000
feet are typical ... but the mountains range from 2000 to
7500 feet. You may easily get above the clouds and fly to
a GPS waypoint, but where are you going to come down through
such a ceiling with hundreds of rocky peaks below you? The
only way to solve this problems is fly treetop, above the
flat and and [mostly] predictable surface of the water. This
means the route you take may not be direct at all, but will
be winding through the maze of mountains and fjords. None
of these have electronic waypoints ... you must learn to recognize
them, visually. The charters, triptix and EZ-Landmark database
(if you own EZ) teach you how to do this.

Misty Moorings, Inc Charters are available

You can find charters compiled for you complete with briefing
(for the Kneeboard), FSNavigator files, EZ-Landmark database,
maps and "Treetop VFR" and narration plans. The Charters are
designed to give you guided tours of the area taking you to
the various far reaches of the scenery or straight through
the heart of the glacier area. These Charters are a good starting
point for getting to know your way around Misty Fjords. You
can find the charters we have ready for you to date at the
Charter Office.
You may go to the Charter Office to see how these are put
together, then select one and read through it to see if this
is one you would like to fly. If you select it, you will be
offered all the tools you need for an exciting and informative
charter.

Misty Moorings, Inc. TripTix are Available

As in the real Misty Fjords, things are not so easy to find,
not only for the real pilot but also for the virtual pilot.
When sceneries are added to this beautiful area they seem
to disappear in the vastness of Misty Fjords. To help you
find the various addon sceneries from Misty Moorings, we are
creating TripTix
that will help you use VFR Treetop directions to find many
of the locations. You can download these and keep them in
the map box under the seat in your favorite plane. When you
get a charter to go to a certain place, just dig through the
map box, find the TripTic and Scotch Tape it to your panel
so you can follow the directions to your destination. As we've
stated before, Misty Fjords Scenery is not something to "fly
over" ... it is something to "fly into." The TripTix will
help you with this immersion experience.

Misty's
Place

NOTEM: Misty's Place is being renovated and will be open for business soon. Misty's Place was opened up on February 26th, 2005. This
is our (web) club house for the virtual pilots who regularly
fly the beautiful Misty Fjords. What we have discovered
is that many people "try the scenery and stay"
... rarely flying anywhere else. Misty becomes a "home"
for them. So for these people, we 've made a special place
we call "Misty's Place." You will find a forum
(lounge) where you can chat with other virtual pilots also
making their home in Misty Fjords. We have live weather
reporting for the area, a bulletin board so people can post
MP activities, or anything else having to do with the area.
There is a special addon scenery for Misty's Place complete
with FSE sounds and enhancement. Also, one of our main features
is "A Misty Tale" ... an on-going flightsim story
by Bryan Kirk. Here you can follow the adventures of David
"Buck" Wilson as he discovers and then settles
down in Misty Fjords. If you would like to join us, please
click on the "key" icon below and follow the instructions.
All are welcome at Misty's Place.

The Key to Misty's Place

Beyond Misty - Ultimate Terrain by Scenery Solutions

For those of you who "fly Misty" frequently,
you surely have encountered a certain amount of disappointment
as you approach where the Misty Fjords scenery ends and
the FS9 default scenery begins. Now, Allen Kriesman of Scenery
Solutions has given us a landclass that is nearly as
breathtaking as Holger Sandmann's Misty Fjords. This new
package renders beautiful scenery for Alaska and Canada
"beyond Misty." Holger and Allen have teamed up
and designed a patch that "matches" the two packages
to an almost seamless boundary. You can learn more about
this commercial package and the "Misty Patch"
by going to the Beyond
Misty page [here].

Summary ...

What
we have done is to start with the Misty Fjords Scenery Package
created by Holger Sandmann and use this as a canvas so the
flight simming community can create their own virtual picture
of their world in Misty Fjords.

Our addon sceneries give the virtual pilot places to "go
see." The charters and the TripTix help the virtual pilots
find their way around the beautiful Misty Fjords.

Mistys Place gives people a place to gather
and share their experiences as well as provide entertainment
via the Misty Tale. All this comes together to give everyone
a customized "home" in Misty Fjords. Don't be surprised
if you try the Misty Fjords Scenery Package then start putting
in the Misty Moorings, Inc. addons, that you might also "stay"
in the area. If that happens to you, we have a place for you,
and you are welcome to stay with us.

Happy Flying,The Misty Moorings, Inc. Team

Misty
Moorings Receives Armchair Aviator's (AAA) Silver Award

If a product has a Silver AAA, it means it is special enough
to stand out from the pack and that I think that you are going
to have a lot of fun using it. There are only a few developers
out there capable of coding software to the standard that
might attract a Silver and I don't expect them to be achieve
the standard consistently. One of the problems with the original
AAA was that I ended up giving it to just about every Flight1,
DreamFleet, Captain Sim and RealAir product because those
guys never seem to let their standards slip - so the award
became routine and ultimately there was no way of distinguishing
the best thing one of those four ever did from products of
theirs which were merely good. The Silver says that you are
looking at a very impressive package which leaves the competition
for dead and if this is an area of flight simulation that
interests you, you ought to be coming up with reasons not
to buy it, rather than the other way around. It won't mean
that the package is absolutely the best one of its type available,
there may be other products in the same class with Silvers
- for example, given the rate that simulations of Boeings
are released, it is hard to imagine that we won't see some
absolutely outstanding packages in the future, and so it is
just about possible that you might find two versions of the
same plane being given Silvers - but such cases will be few
and far between.

Andrew Herd
andy@FlightSim.com

Misty
Fjords Scenery Package - Released!

Holger
Sandmann is a master when it comes to 'landscaping' for FS9.
He makes LARGE areas of the flight simulator landscape look
REAL. The size of the area covered by this package is larger
than Switzerland. You will be amazed when you see this landscape
unfold before your eyes when flying over it. Only a small
part of the improvements are caused by high resolution mesh.
Far more important are the replacement of the coastlines and
rivers, lakes and roads. And the replacement of default textures,
addition of special textures, glaciers, frozen water and more.
This is what sets Holger's titles apart from the 'rest' and
raises the bar of 'reality and immersion' once again!

Tongass
Fjords Scenery Package - Released!

Tongass
Fjords is the successor and complement to Misty Fjords. Tongass
Fjords is a major cooperation between Holger Sandmann and
Bill Womack, now not only including the already legendary
'Sandmann Landscape' but also a true-to-life regional airport
(Sitka), the town of Petersburg and quite a few other settlements,
airports, seaplane bases and harbors. As you will learn there
is a plethora of things to see, discover, experience and visit
!!! Tongass Fjords is supported by the same team that brought
you Misty Fjords, and it will cover the area north of Misty.
It is fully compatible with Ultimate Terrain right from the
start, and also compatible to Misty Fjords, Freight Dogs and
FD 'The Scenery' ! With Tongass Fjords we bring you a whole
new FS world !!! Nope, we’re not exaggerating one little bit,
as you will soon see after installing it. Tongass Fjords really
is what FSAddon.com Publishing is all about….. enhancing your
immersion in the wonderful world of Flight Simulation. Tongass
Fjords will give you the feeling of ‘being there’ more than
ANY other product currently on the market. Sure, sure, marketing
speak, right!? We are convinced that you will agree with us
after installing Tongass Fjords….. and all its additional
scenery, objects. After all: we already made Misty Fjords
!! .

The
Scenery Page for Tongass Fjords can be found
HERE and the Web Page for Tongass Wild can be found HERE